nicostoffi

My F4U

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Spectre1

SWEET looking bird Kinver/ Nicostoffi I too love Saito's, but Im still on the fence with this bird.

Tisoy did you get a chance to maiden yours with the Brison?

Keep the pics and Info coming guys!

JamF4U

Almost ready, test flight next month. Received Century Jet retracts last week, very good. If it flies well will consider the German retracts.

f4u19

where did you get that great looking prop hub and spinner?

f4u19

what did you use for the machine gun detail?

Tisoy909

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Spectre1,
Nope, believe it or not, I finished building this model months and months ago but unfortunately I still haven't gotten around to maidening yet. I Even told f4u19, that I would give him a call when im ready to maiden but my Work and many other little side tracking things here have gotten in the way of being able to fly my Corsair which has been staring me down everytime I get back to the house. On top of this having seen these other guys putting some really nice landing gear equipment in their models has really gotten me to think twice before maidening. The stock gear right now is so unreliable, from being wobbly, fidgety for lack of a better description, both on the ground taxiing around my driveway to the way the retracts cycle in and out that I'm thinking of changing out the gear before its maiden, as soon as I can get around to it.
Louie

f4u19, I still have your contact number, i just haven't gotten around to flying the darn thing, I can email or call you if you'd still like to come down to our field to check her out. take care!

f4u19

Sounds great, I just got my Sierra Giant scale Retracts in the mail yesterday they look great. My corsair came in last month, but I sent it back because it had come with the KMP retracts.

Now it looks like it will be April. o'well it will be worth in the long run.

JamF4U

Hi f4u19

The prop and hub were hand made for scale static use only. The spinner was made out of steel on a lathe, it helped bring the C of G forward. As for the guns, some paint and a bit of sculpturing.

The test flight is postponed, we are still waiting for main gear retracts that'll be reliable. I've ordered 3 sets now, all no good, I'm sending the two sets of KMP retracts back and CJM sent the wrong set. I do like the CJM retracts they work well and I've used them on the CMPro F4U for 50 flights with no problems. The German retracts look really good, maybe Christmas.

By the way my Father built this, he's done a very good job. I just fly them. Thanks Dad.

Hopefully test fly on the 17th March.[:-]

More photo's to come later.

Regards

Jam.

v6goose

Any chance you would share your static prop process?

Cheers

Goose

nicostoffi

Hello Daniel,

you have some Questions about weathering from my Corsair.
I can't sent a mail or PM to you .

Now here's my phonenumber Germany 06105 21975

Spectre1

Tisoy, I completely understand your concerns with the "stock" L/G, Maybe KMP will take this issue to heart and so something about thier landing gear.

f4u19

Any test flights yet, I ordered my Brison and I have my landing gear From sieara giant, Just waiting on the plane.


Spectre1,
Nope, believe it or not, I finished building this model months and months ago but unfortunately I still haven't gotten around to maidening yet. I Even told f4u19, that I would give him a call when im ready to maiden but my Work and many other little side tracking things here have gotten in the way of being able to fly my Corsair which has been staring me down everytime I get back to the house. On top of this having seen these other guys putting some really nice landing gear equipment in their models has really gotten me to think twice before maidening. The stock gear right now is so unreliable, from being wobbly, fidgety for lack of a better description, both on the ground taxiing around my driveway to the way the retracts cycle in and out that I'm thinking of changing out the gear before its maiden, as soon as I can get around to it.
Louie

f4u19, I still have your contact number, i just haven't gotten around to flying the darn thing, I can email or call you if you'd still like to come down to our field to check her out. take care!

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lynn1130

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Does anyone have some photos of their flap servo linkage? I have read and reread the crappy manual and for the life of me cannot figure out what it is they want me to do to connect the linkage to the flaps. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tisoy909

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lynn1130,
Well good luck with that, but i had to modify mine, the way its called for in the manual is barbarian at best, You can roll back several pages, i put up some photos of what i did to solve it.
Louie

lynn1130

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Thanks. I looked through this thread but did not see you post. Can you give me a post number to locate it?

Tisoy909

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Pages 6 & 7 discussing it, post #155 with some pics of what i did.

lynn1130

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Thanks

lynn1130

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OK. I did read that but that setup is not the one I am having problems with, at the moment. I am having trouble figuring out the servo connection to the flap. The instructions are not clear about how the servo attaches to the flap. It appears that the servo arm is inside the wing and that the rod going to the servo leading edge is attached through the trailing edge of the wing with one of the copper "pins" but I am not sure.

Tisoy909

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lynn1130,
Yes thats correct, you have to figure out where to drill the hole in the trailing edge of the wing so that the pushrod can come through and exit to meet with the leading edge of the primary flap. you need to get your measurements correct first so that you wont have to drill too many or too big of a hole. This was another headache I had with those excellent instructions that kmp provided. It was extremely irritating and felt like kit building all over again. Even the servo hatch doors were of the same stock used for the aileron servo hatches, so at first had me thinking im going to put servo arms sticking out of the wing and attaching to the flap via control horns, so I opened those up, shame on me. They even included the extra horns as well, kinda made me wonder as there were so many conflicting things between the instructions and the model itself. Also, that copper attachment piece with the machined threads which attach to the flap, just make sure you epoxy those well into the flap as they can pull out easily from the flap in flight vibration, you dont want that to happen obviously.
Good luck!
Louie

nicostoffi

drifter

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1. Picture #10 in the "manual" shows the actual pushrod connection. Servo arm points to bottom of the wing. Servo and arm are inside the wing.

2. Picture #13 shows the copper pin's insertion into the leading edge of the flap. It does not show the correct depth.

3. Picture #15 gives a side view of the connection, and shows how deep to insert the copper pin. Here the pushrod passes thru the wing trailing edge.

4. Picture #24 shows the external linkage that is not mentioned in the "manual".

And, if you have KMP retracts the drawing on the back of the "manual" shows the fill valve (air inlet) reversed. Air line goes on the other end.

drifter

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What do your KMP Corsairs weigh?

Kit specs call for 14.7 lbs
Web site calls for 16 to 17 lbs.

Mine needed 28 ozs nose weight with an OS 160 mounted. I did not use the heavy wheels.

lynn1130

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Thanks a bunch. I did the same thing with the servo arm slots. That was my fault for not looking at the manual closer. I will probably close those and match the paint later to keep oil and fuel out.

This is my second KMP model and I have built both kits and ARFs and some manuals were vague but this is the first manual that I can say is super hosed up.

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I have the KMP Corsair with the Factory Retracts and am looking at the satio 170r dose anyone have any good or bad to say about the power of this
engine and would it be a good choice.